Lyndon Barwa
Appearances
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No, I think I'm the only one on the planet, actually.
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As a kid in New Orleans, you know, I just grew up making things all the time, you know, discarded foam wire, aluminum foil, you know, anything I got my hands on, you know, clay. And then, you know, of the tons of gum that my mom chewed and I discovered, you know, her discarded wrappers were paper on one side and foil on the other.
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I had the idea that if I sculpted it with the paper side out, I can color it. And boom, the light switch went off and, you know, here I am.
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Well, yeah, that was the first solo show I had, but I actually started just from making drivers for Hot Wheels cars. The cars are so cool, the doors open, the hood, the trunk, everything, but there's no driver, so it made no sense to me. And so I just started making people to put in the car and never stopped.
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She did, but then the doctors told her she had to stop because she'd swallowed it and said, this is not healthy, man.
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Yes, that has been the bulk of my professional work. I'm responsible for the creature work, the character and creature work. So, like, I've done everything from the Matrix trilogy to Happy Feet, the CG creature effects in those films, the ones that are brought to life, the actual characters themselves.
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I've got to go with A on that one. They had to have made him a Geldy.